feculent

Example Sentences

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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2018

Sensibility is smothered in, the feculent steams of roast beef, and delicacy stained by the waste drippings of porter.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.

Brann wrote to catch the wide world's attention that he might teach them gentler things than feculent shocks.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

Our light showed no tokens of a feculent or corrupted atmosphere. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John